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2021.07.06
The NAOJ Chile has an office in Santiago, the capital of the Republic of Chile. The office is operated with support of the staff members who are in charge of a…
2021.02.08
The ALMA telescope, located at the 5,000-m highlands in the Atacama Desert, is remotely operated from the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF) at 2,900 m abo…
2020.11.11
ALMA, located at the 5,000-m highlands in Chile, is remotely operated from the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF) at 2,900 m above sea level. Over 100 peop…
2020.06.25
This is the second article in the How ALMA Works series that reveals the secret of ALMA’s extraordinary capabilities. This article features the “radio interfer…
2020.05.29
In the ALMA telescope, multiple parabolic antennas are employed to make a single giant telescope. ALMA is quite different in many ways from typical telescopes …
2020.04.28
How are stars and planets formed? This is one of the great mysteries that ALMA aims to unravel. Nami Sakai, Chief Scientist at RIKEN, is taking on this challen…
2018.09.25
ALMA is used by astronomers all over the world. After ALMA observations have been carried out, the data is firstly processed by experts from the ALMA Support C…
2018.07.05
Many graduate students are studying at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and taking on challenges to explore mysteries of the universe with…
2018.05.29
While ALMA is capable of capturing the microwave from the most distant objects 13 billion light years away, ALMA observations are also made focused on our sola…
2018.03.05
ALMA produces huge amounts of observation data from gigantic hardware systems. Remarkable ALMA results achieved by astronomers are always supported by ALMA com…
2018.02.02
When and how were galaxies with a hundred billion stars born in the universe?
This is one of the biggest mysteries that remain unsolved in modern astron…
2017.08.07
“Seeing a black hole” has been a long-cherished desire for many astronomers, but now, thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and the Global mm-VLBI Array …
2017.06.28
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and the Global mm-VLBI Array (GMVA) have caused quite a stir with their recent observations of the supermassive black hole at…
2017.06.21
A black hole is an extraordinary object with extremely strong gravity, but when observed from Earth it would look like a tiny dot. To capture an image of a bla…
2017.06.01
Can you imagine yourself hearing only the bass of a music recording? Or only seeing objects of a particular colour? Well, in a way, you experience this every d…
2017.05.17
We know that black holes are fascinating objects, capable of bending not only our minds but also reality itself. They squeeze matter into an extraordinarily mi…
2017.05.09
In 2014, astronomers were stunned by the ultra-high resolution image of HL Tauri (also called HL Tau) observed by ALMA, revealing a key element to unveil the f…
2017.05.09
Many people are curious about the existence of extraterrestrial life. In fact, we have already started to obtain some evidences of it. With the advancement of …
2017.05.09
ALMA is an international project in cooperation with 22 countries and regions where several hundreds of people from various fields are working together as a te…
2017.04.14
Right now, astronomers are attempting to take the first image of the event horizon of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way — but what exa…
A team of international astronomers have embarked on an exciting new project to hunt for planets forming around young s…
Dr. Akimasa Kataoka at NAOJ received the Young Scientists’ Award, 2025 Commendation for Science and Technology by the M…
Takafumi Tsukui at the Australian National University (currently Tohoku University) received Inoue Research Award for Y…
